Update - Boaz claims his Avast anti virus detected a virus after following the link below. My AVG doesn't detect anything, but follow at your own peril (you should be safe with Firefox & NoScript anyway)
A Blue Screen of Death project in the 2008 Olympics :) (while Bill Gates was attending it)
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
12 August 2008
The Ultimate Embarresment
17 March 2008
Joel on Web Standards
A mile long article by Joel Spolsky. He explains why he thinks IE8 should not force standard conformance, contrary to the popular opinion.
23 February 2008
Politically Correct Office
This is new to me - it appears that in addition to the usual spell-checking and sentence structure checks Word 2007 does, it also includes a political correctness checker. Check this out:
19 December 2007
Recovering Corrupt Doc Files
Today Word 2007 corrupted a doc file Aya was working on. The repair function from inside Word failed to work, and a Google search revealed a myriad of word repair tools - some of them don't work, and some of them not free.
Gmail managed to easily convert the doc to HTML, and then opening this HTML with Word provided a version of the document. The problem was of course that all the hebrew and symbols got misplaced (text direction problems and the like).
Finally I found the perfect solution - OpenOffice. A quick download (~120mb) and install, and I managed to easily open the original corrupt doc and resave it.
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